14 August 2017 | Kohala Mountains, Hawaii

Daughter’s boyfriend, an archaeologist, wanted to visit the Mo’okini heiau, which is a sacred ceremonial site, probably used for human sacrifice. It dates from the 5th century and is one of the oldest sites in the Hawaiian Islands.

13 August 2017 | Volcano National Park, Hawaii

We went up the road from Pohoiki on the south coast to rendezvous with my two brothers, then continued on the main highway to Kea'au, then turned left up the mountain. The road goes up the north shoulder of Mauna Loa, considered the largest mountain in the world based on mass. On its flank is Kilaeua, [...]

13 August 2017 | Kalapana, Ka'u, Hawaii

Here is a link to an album on flickr of photos taken on the road to Kapoho, then to Pohoiki, then to Kalapana, back to Pohoiki to board a boat for lava viewing where the lava pours into the steaming ocean.

11 August 2017 | Kalapana, Hawaii

Our stay at Kahala came to a close and we flew to Hilo on the Big Island. Here I had two brothers and a sister and their families. Here my parents are buried, so it is also a pilgrimage to see their grave.

Blood Sun

26 April 2017 | St. Marys, GA

Capn Andy/Warm Spring

Things are beginning to heat up in Bermuda with the new America’s Cup catamarans practicing ahead of next months round robin sail off, followed by the Louis Vuitton Cup, and finally the 35th America’s Cup between the Louis Vuitton winner and Team Oracle USA. If you search myislandhomeBDA at Youtube, you’ll find plenty of footage of all the competitors zooming around on foils. One video was an explanation of foil attitude strategy and the reason for the boats looking a bit down at the bow while foiling downwind. The fellow explaining it said something like, “we want to keep the boat level foiling upwind, usually about 27 knots, so when we bear off downwind at around 40 knots, we have to reduce the angle of attack on the foils by pitching the boat down at the bow.”
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My boat lettering came in, faster than expected, and I’m excited to see what it looks like on the finished paint job. So, I will be busy the next few days on that.
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For some reason I had been coughing a lot and I thought it was due to paint fumes or sanding dust, but someone said something about fires burning in the Okefenokee swamp not far to the West of us. The sunset was spectacularly blood red, so I took a picture.